History Main / TeachHimAnger

* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Kenneth of all people takes it upon himself to push new guy [[CanadaEh Danny Baker]] to anger so that he doesn't get stepped on by Tracy and Jenna.

** In Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E15GetItDone Get It Done]]" Buffy has to do this with both with vampire Spike (after he got a soul) and witch Willow (after briefly turning evil at the end of the previous season).

* In ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars Episode III]],'' the Emperor does this to Anakin. In ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Star Wars Episode VI]]'', he tries to do it to Luke. (Luke falls for it twice, but the third time he refuses to attack, and is promptly fried by a disappointed Sith Lord.)
** Darth Vader has a go at it in [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]]:
--->"Obi-Wan has taught you well, you have controlled your fear. Now, release your ''anger''; only your hatred can destroy me!"

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In the episode "Hall Monitor," after Helga decides to give up hall monitoring, she selects Phoebe as the next hall monitor. Unlike the strict and brash Helga (as one should expect from her) Phoebe has a hard time getting the students to listen to her, getting shoved around, ignored and bullied due to her passive, soft-spoken and quiet nature when trying to do her job. So Helga decides to toughen her up giving her advice on how to be more authoritative, which results in a more confident but controlling and even bitchy to the point she actually ends up being worst than Helga. She sends students to detention for even the smallest things, including Helga herself. All the kids start asking for the nice, quiet girl back, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone even Helga knew she created a monster.]] Helga talks to her and Phoebe realizes that she didn't want the kids to have another Helga and decides she doesn't want to be a bossy control freak anymore if that's the only way to get respect from people. Hilariously enough, she even looks at a mirror and sees a Helga with black hair and glasses staring back at her, [[WhatHaveIBecome seeing what she had become and what other students saw.]]

* One of the core conflicts of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' is the titular character suddenly [[PowerIncontinence (And uncontrollably)]] discovering destructive powers related to his unresolved feelings of frustration and anger regarding his traumatic childhood and hang-ups concerning his mother. After everything and everyone else in his life fails to help him in learning how to get a reign on his powers, he ends up turning to [[TheJuggernaut Jasper]] for help, [[SinkOrSwimMentor who promptly spends her time brutalizing and antagonizing Steven as her method of training.]] In the end Steven does gain better control over his powers however and eventually challenges Jasper to a sparring match where she [[BloodKnight further eggs him on to unload all his rage and power on her.]] [[spoiler: It's only through sheer dumb luck that she can [[BackFromTheDead live]] to regret doing so.]]

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'': Raiden's tower ending reveals that [[spoiler:his tempremanet as a HumbleHero is actually one of the more subtle changes he received from Liu Kang beyond the more obivous change of being reborn as a mortal]]. Raiden's narration explains that this was to prevent [[spoiler:the kind of anger and wrath that gave rise to Dark Raiden]], and goes on to explain that while he understands the reasons this was done, he disagrees with the act. He has taken up [[spoiler:training with Scorpion and the Shirai Ryu to learn how to channel that anger in case he might one day need the edge such rage can bring]].

* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''" In the [[DownerEnding Dark Side ending]], [[spoiler:Starkiller uses this tactic to turn Luke Skywalker to the DarkSide. He telekinetically prevents the [[CoolStarship Millennium Falcon]] from escaping while threatening Luke's friends, and is quickly rewarded with [[PsychoElectro a burst of Force Lightning]] from his new apprentice.]]
* ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The Sith Warrior can potentially do this to Jaesa Willsaam and CorruptTheCutie.

* Basically the conspiracy's goal in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', which seeks to make a powerful alchemist angry, callous or desperate enough where they're willing to [[spoiler:fulfill the primary production requirement of the PhilosophersStone: sacrificing thousands of human lives]]. This approaches BreakTheCutie levels for {{Reluctant Warrior}}s Ed & Al.

* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the Nameless One can teach an [=NPC=] how to get angry. The goal is to get her annoyed enough at her co-workers to gossip about them, though. It's a notable SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} in a game that was already full of them since she's ThePollyanna- you have to start by getting her to "practice" insulting you, which she does by first telling you that she thinks that you're a less than perfectly wonderful person, then working herself into a full-on scenery chewing rant. The Nameless One is a touch concerned by the end of it.
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'', the second variant describes the training of Black Swimmers. The Liir are a species of [[TheEmpath Empaths]] who are pacifistic as a result, but because they need to defend themselves ''somehow'' a special caste of volunteers known as the Black Swimmers keep them safe by teaching themselves how to hate and kill. Black Swimmers are basically irredeemably AxCrazy by Liir standards and both sides are all too aware of this, but are nonetheless necessary for the race as a whole to survive. Their InitiationCeremony involves 'drowning' the aspirant in liquid oxygen until they black out and [[DespairEventHorizon abandon all hope]].
* In ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', this is the point of Kevin's beginning plot. He's a [[HalfHumanHybrid human-beastman hybrid]], but his gentle nature is akin to his human mother's and he dislikes the violent beastmen. The Beast King hires Goremand to use his magic in a way that will force the beastman blood in Kevin to awaken, which happens when Goremand causes Kevin's best friend, a wolf cub called Karl, to attack him. Kevin turns into his full-fledged beastman form and [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening kills Karl]]. Kevin vows revenge on Goremand and the Beast King for Karl's death.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'', the main character can go to the [[BonusDungeon Anger Tower]] and learn, arguably, the most powerful technique in the game, which happens to be fueled by anger; this trope comes into play when Re-Faze puts Chaz to a SecretTestOfCharacter: forcing him to confront and then kill a specter of his deceased mentor and surrogate mother, and then taunt him for his pain after realizing it was an illusion, ''then'' offer to teach him the Forbidden technique to taunt him with how incredibly powerful it would be.
* The Beast does this to Will in ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Days of Ruin]]'' in order to make him a satisfying opponent. His method of doing so? Killing civilians. It works well enough that the Beast is never seen again after that mission (presumed dead based on Caulder's lines).
* In the [[DownerEnding Dark Side ending]] of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', [[spoiler: Starkiller uses this tactic to turn Luke Skywalker to the DarkSide. He telekinetically prevents the [[CoolStarship Millennium Falcon]] from escaping while threatening Luke's friends, and is quickly rewarded with [[PsychoElectro a burst of Force Lightning]] from his new apprentice.]]

* Quaggans in ''Videogame/GuildWars2'' are pacifistic fish/manatee people generally too shy and timid to even defend themselves in the face of aggression from just about every violent faction in Tyria. Except when they get really angry. When that happens, a Quaggan will turn into an armored, fanged monstrosity that tends to wipe the floor with any threat in the vicinity in very short order. Of course, since Quaggans are so good at repressing any violent urges they might feel, quite a few of them require the player character's help to get into a fighting mood...
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', the young orphan Lugh is ThePollyanna, cheerful and kind to everyone he meets, and his childhood friends say that he's too nice to fight on a battlefield. Lugh, however, is driving himself forward with his hatred of the country that destroyed their orphanage -- as he says to a Bern defector, anger is a better motivator than sadness, and he has to stay angry until the war ends so he can survive.